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* If it's possible, changing the theme without restarting (like it's managed in Songbird) would be great. | * If it's possible, changing the theme without restarting (like it's managed in Songbird) would be great. | ||
** As long as FF does not become adversely affected by this (things such as graphical artifacts that may be common when switching themes), I fully support this idea. Restarting can take long on a laptop with a slow hard drive :( --[[User:FlyingIsFun1217|FlyingIsFun1217]] 14:06, 1 January 2007 (PST) | ** As long as FF does not become adversely affected by this (things such as graphical artifacts that may be common when switching themes), I fully support this idea. Restarting can take long on a laptop with a slow hard drive :( --[[User:FlyingIsFun1217|FlyingIsFun1217]] 14:06, 1 January 2007 (PST) | ||
* Since most extensions are of a small size, could extensions be mirrored on our hard drives in .xpi format? This way, one can open up the Profile folder, drag-and-drop all extensions into the Addon Manager and reinstall all extensions in case of a crash. This not only saves the user time and addons.mozilla.org bandwidth, it also reduces stress and frustration due to the loss of a profile and speeds up the restoring process. (thus preventing temptation from Opera and IE) If huge extensions start popping up, which I doubt, an about:config setting could be added to only mirror extensions that are less than a specific amount of KB. A plain text file/ xml file could be placed in the mirror directory with the names of excluded extensions. | |||
== Add-on manager == | == Add-on manager == | ||